Mauricio Godoy of IBM joins Blair Pleasant of UCStrategies at Lotusphere for a conversation about the Social Business theme of the keynote presentations of this year's conference.
Transcript for Social Business Focus at Lotusphere
Mauricio Godoy: Hi everyone, this Mauricio Godoy from IBM and today I have the pleasure of being joined by Blair Pleasant, who is the president and principal analyst for COMMfusion, as well as co-founder or UCStrategies. Blair, thank you. Thank you for joining me today here at Lotusphere. Can you tell us what some of your favorite takeaways were from today’s keynote?
Blair Pleasant: Social business is definitely the theme and you definitely demonstrated that in several ways. The demos were awesome. We really got to see the integration of lots of the different capabilities coming together. Also coming is integration with Microsoft Exchange, and SharePoint, and some of the Microsoft tools, so it's not just IBM but you are really expanding to integrate outside of IBM and Lotus, which is very exciting to see. Also, some of the customers were very excited about what they are doing, and again they are really showing that this isn’t just talk, they are actually integrating social into their business environments and really seeing results from it.
Mauricio Godoy: So you are definitely noticing the social business aspect from today’s keynote?
Blair Pleasant: Kind of hard to avoid.
Mauricio Godoy: Yes, it's fantastic.Thank you very much Blair, hope to see you soon.